Privacy & Information Security Law Blog

As we previously reported, Lisa J. Sotto, partner and head of Hunton & Williams LLP’s Global Privacy and Cybersecurity practice group, spoke at Bloomberg Law’s Second Annual Big Law Business Summit on changes in the privacy and security legal landscape. In Part 2 of her discussion, Lisa speaks about the evolution of privacy laws over the years. The “hundreds of [privacy laws] at the federal and state level,” as well as data protection laws in countries all over the world, is a far cry from the landscape in 1999 when Lisa started the privacy practice at Hunton & Williams. To keep up with the evolution of data privacy, lawyers and regulators alike must understand that its “a 24/7 endeavor,” and one that is global in nature. “Data is not constrained by state or country boundaries,” says Sotto.

View the second segment.